Data Analyst (Payments)
Mayflower is a technology company building large-scale entertainment products for a global audience. Our platforms serve millions of users worldwide and rank among the top-50 most visited websites globally. For more than 10 years, we've been creating reliable, high-performance solutions at the intersection of product, engineering, and entertainment.
As a Payments Data Analyst, you will help optimize the performance of our global payment infrastructure by turning transaction data into actionable insights. You will work closely with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, and Data teams to identify opportunities for improving payment success rates, reducing costs, and delivering a better customer payment experience.
This role combines analytical thinking with a strong understanding of payment flows. You will investigate payment performance, identify trends and anomalies, evaluate experiments, and help drive data-informed decisions across the payments domain.
Responsibilities:
Monitor and optimise payments performance, including approval rates, decline patterns, 3DS flows, timeouts, retries and routing rules.
Analyse and reduce fraud-related declines, collaborate on tuning fraud rules and improving risk thresholds.
Perform deep-dive analyses to discover patterns, trends and new insights across card schemes, PSPs, BINs, countries and methods.
Drive actionable outcomes: update routing logic, cascading strategy, risk rules, issuer-specific heuristics and operational configurations.
Own continuous monitoring: daily health checks, anomaly detection and alerts on key metrics.
Build dashboards and monitoring tools in Metabase / Amplitude / Tableau
Prepare clear and actionable analytics reports for internal teams and leadership.
Evaluate impact of new features, routing changes, ML versions, product experiments and provide data-backed recommendations.
Work closely with Product, Data, ML, Payments Operations and Fraud teams to design and implement improvements end-to-end.
Requirements
You will thrive if you have…
Strong advanced SQL (NoSQL, window functions), ability to build metrics properly
Understanding of PSP behaviour, decline codes, 3DS, issuer logic, routing, tokens, cascading
Understanding of fraud basics (RDR, chargebacks, rule tuning, risk signals)
Ability to translate data into clear actions
Comfortable in a fast-moving, operational environment
Ownership mindset, strong attention to detail
Fluency in Python Data Science stack (Jupyter Notebook, Pandas)
Based in Cyprus or willing to relocate to Cyprus.
Nice-to-haves:
Knowledge of Russian
Experience with card schemes / PSPs and issuer-specific patterns
Hands-on work with 3DS flows, network tokens, or routing optimisation
Background in fraud prevention (rules, signals, chargebacks)
Work experience in fintech / high-load transactional products
Conditions
We know that great talent deserves great conditions, so here's what you can expect when joining us:
EU-based employment contract and a 3-year Cyprus work visa with full support for your relocation and visa processes, including assistance for your family.
EUpassport. Opportunity to obtain an EU passport after 4 years of residence.
Full relocation package: flights to Limassol for you and your family, a company-covered apartment for the first month, and full relocation support to make your move smooth and hassle-free.
42 remote work days
21 vacation days/10 days paid sick leave
Transparent performance reviews twice a year, with bonus opportunities and salary adjustments.
Private medical insurance for you and your family, a corporate mobile plan (unlimited in Cyprus with roaming included), and interest-free support for car purchases.
Provident fund (Cyprus): a long-term savings plan co-funded by you and the Company together (available after probation) that grows throughout your time with us in Cyprus.
Mindfulness & well-being support, including psychological assistance with 50% coverage.
50% coverage of school and kindergarten fees for your children.
Fully covered sports benefits, and also access to in-house electric scooters and bike rentals.
Investment in your growth: paid language courses and access to suited-for-you development programs, including conferences, training programs, and coaching to support your professional journey.
A culture of recognition: a peer reward program to celebrate your contributions.
A fully equipped office in Limassol, with everything you need for deep work and collaboration.
Free breakfast options at the office, Wolt Allowance, and an in-house coffee bar with high quality drinks and a health bar stocked with nutritious snacks.
A strong engineering culture: international teams, corporate events, team buildings, and hackathons-because great work happens in great communities.
Benefits are provided in accordance with the company's policies and eligibility criteria.
Recruitment process:
HR Interview (40mins)
Technical interview with the hiring team (1hr)